Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1959 — Page 1

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REPORT ON ICBM— Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy (left) compares notes with Joint Chief of Staff chairman Gen. Nathan Twining as they appeared before the Senate Preparedness and Space Committees in Washington. McElroy said that Russia will have more ICBM’s than the U. S. “at some point down the road.” * “ . ■■■■ ■■ ■ ■ W"--" -•■■■■.*■ •--•■■ ! al. U..R.R, ......W.

New Crackdown In Offing For AntiParfy Reds Two More Top Party Members Linked To Disgraced Group MOSCOW (UPI) — The Soviet press today linked two more top Communist Party members with the disgraced “anti-party group” of former government leaders, and a new crackdown appeared in the making. Speakers at today’s session of the 21st congress of the Soviet Communist Party heaped further denunciation on the group, apparently setting the stage for their confessions of plotting against Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s policies. The Soviet press linked one-time Presidium members Mikhail Pervukhin and Maxim Saburov with the group which was expelled from the Communist hierarchy in 1957 on charges of trying to sabotage the party’s domestic and foreign policy. The previously denounced members of the anti-party group were former Premiers Vyacheslav M. Molotov, Nikolai Bulganin and Georgi Malenkov, and former Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov and former Presidium member Lazar Kaganovich. Answer for Mistakes The first speaker at today’s congress session, Alexei Gayevoy, secretary of the Dnepropetrovsk party committee, began by praising Khrushchev's seven-year plan - and ended by up denouncing the anti-party group. He said, “The tasks confronting ] the country throw into particular relief the tremendous significance of the exposure of the factional group which tried to frustrate the implementation of the Leninist line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on all the questions of domestic and foreign policy.” The accusations against Pervukhin and Saburov were made Thursday by Ivan V. Spiridinov, head of the Leningrad regional party committee, and made public today. He noted that neither had spoken out against the anti-party group and asked: “How. can we understand this silence, Comrades Pervukhin and Saburov? Shouldn’t we demand an answer from you before the congress for your mistakes?” —. Pravda, the official Communist Party newspaper, said Spiridinov’s suggestion was greeted with cheers by the 1,200 or more delegates. Pervukhin andSaburov were, dropped from the Presidium in June, 1957, when the others were expelled. But Pervukhin and Saburov remained in the Central Committee where Pervukhin was demoted from full membership to the rank of candidate member. In addition, the congress was expected to take up the so-called Continued oh page five INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and muchcolder tonight with a few snow flurries likely extreme north. Saturday partly cloudy north, mostly cloudy south, with chance of snow or sleet extreme southwest last Saturday. Low tonight 5 to 15 north and central, 15 to 20 extreme south. High Saturday 19 to 25 north, 25 to 30 south. Sunset today 6:03 p.m. CDT. Sunrise Saturday 7:54 a.m. CDT. Outlook for Sunday: Continued cold, mostly cloudy with snow possibly mixed with rain south. Low 10 to 20. High 20s north to 30 to 35 south.

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Stormy Cold Front In Part Os Nation Heavy Shows Along Upper Mississippi United Press International A stormy cold front Friday etched a line north along the Mississippi River Valley, circling the snow-covered central states with a band of warmer air. Heavy snows fell along the upper Mississippi Valley and extended into the Great Lakes region, ’ Wisconsin and Michigan. Three J inches of new snow hit Lone Rock. Wis., and Grand Rapids, ■ Mich., Thursday night and drifted ‘ over a wide area under high winds. ' Temperatures dropped more : than 20 degrees in such widely separated communities as Trini- ’ dad, Colo., Grand Island Neb., ’ and Sioux City, lowa, ranging 1 from 10 above zero to 10 below. Meanwhile, Gulf air on the other side of the front to the east ! sent readings into the 50s and ’ 60s in Pennsylvania and West Vir- ‘ ginia. Above - freezing tempera--1 tores were reported as far north 1 as New England. Still east of the front, Zanesville, Ohio,” and Glen Falls N. Y. benefited from a narrow band of warm air that catapulted temperatures 35 degrees in 24 hours: Conditions were generally stationary west of the front. There were a few snow flurries in the northern Rocky Mountains and showers along the Pacific Coast. States bounded by the front had little promise of early relief. Drifts in North Dakota blocked one highway along a two-mile stretch. Up to 10 inches of snow in Utah caused a rash of minor traffic accidents and disrupted telephone and telegraph communications. The storm, close on the heels of last week's blast, dumped up to 18 inches of snow in parts of Colorado, extending across snowcovered plains to the Colorado- . Wyoming border. Though temperatures were below freezing, there was little danger Friday of record snowfall. Twenty years ago, a 14-hour onslaught dumped 14.9 inches on Chicago, closing all schools and killing 11 persons. The clash of warm and cold air surrounding the central states brought rain to much of the country. • ■- St. Mary's Again Above Flood Stage Rain Thursday, night, .43 inch, returned the St. Mary’s river to over the 13-foot level of theoretical . flood stage, according ..to weather, observer louis Landrum. The river had subsided the last few days after periods of four to five feet over flood stage. Today at 7 a.m. it was 14.72 feet. No Change Reported In Pastor's Condition Authorities at St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne, reported today that no change has developed in the condition of the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor of the St. Mary’s Catholic church, since his admittance to the Fort Wayne hospital last Saturday morning. It was stated that Msgr. Seimetz is still listed on the critical list as no progress has developed within the past seven days. Msgr. Seimetz was taken to St. Joseph hospital after he had suffered a stroke at the rectory early Saturday morning. His right side was paralyzed and his speech was affected by the stroke. The pastor is still unconscious, according to hospital authorities.

Suggests City Dwellers Quit Paying Taxes Blasts Colleagues For Not Providing For Reapportionment INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — An Indianapolis Democrat suggested 1 in the Indiana Senate today that ! Hoosier city-dwellers quit paying state taxes until the General Assembly gives them adequate legislative representation. Sen. Nelson Grills, an attorney, blasted his colleagues and lawmaking predecessors for failing to provide legislative reapportionment every six years as required by the state’s constitution. The last reapportionment was 35 years ago. “Let the people pay their taxes who are accorded equal representation in levying the taxes,” Grills said, “and those who are not accorded such representation refuse taxes unconstitutionally imposed until their General Assembly shows the same regard for the Constitution they expect the citizens to give their enactments.” “If the blood and courage of our revolutionary fathers is coursing today through the veins of the citizens to which this General Assembly shows disrespect, none of the taxes levied would be paid,” Grills said in a Senate speech. He referred to the plea from populous communities that rural , representation is too great and urban representation too small in the light of population shifts in the last three decades. A few minutes after Grills spoke, two Republican, senators . introduced a bill which would in- , crease the gross income tak ex- - empty from 41,000 to 61.50& a ' year. Sen. Roy Conrad of Monticello, : a sponsor with Sen. Russell Bon- ; trager of Elkhart, said the bill , would provide “a little tax relief ; for the working man.” He said he ; believed it had a 50-50 chance of” enactment. He said it would re duce state revenue about five million dollars a year. _ . Earlier, a hearing was held on ’ liability insurance rates for motor- 1 ists, which witnesses said could 1 increase by 310 a year if a bill now under consideration is en(Continued on pare eigrht) I Democrat Chairman Warns On Pay Hike Skilien In Caucus I Os House Members INDIANAPOLIS <UPD — Democratic State Chairman Charles E. Skilien warned members of his party in the Indiana House today, in effect, that they might be digging their own political graves if they tried to raise the pay of Hoosier legislators. Skilien attended a closed caucus of House Democrats, who control the House by a 79-21 margin. It was learned he told the caucus that the lawmakers would have to accept the consequences from aroused voters if they pass a bill (H 872 to give each lawmaker $lO a ‘day during the biennial session at a total cost to the taxpayer of $91,500. Before Skilien appeared, there , was no clear indication of whether , the majority of the 79 Democrats i favored the pay hike, although it survived efforts to kill it ,as it 1 came out of committee and ad- ■ vanced toward a showdown, .vote-.. : After the Skilien appeal. House Speaker Birch Bayh said he believed the Democrats "saw the facts of life” and that they would : go along “wholeheartedly with the : chair” in action on the measure. ; But Bayh would not disclose < what he as chairman intended to ■ do with the measure, which was I on the calendar for third reading today. i “You’ll have to wait and see,” Bayh told newsmen. Some observers were surprised . to see the bill on the calendar. It i had been eligible for the calendar I earlier but Birch did not place it i there until today, after specula- 1 tion that he would wield his au- ] thority and keep the bill bottled i up and off the calendar perhaps I during the remainder of the ses- I aion. -1 Rep. James Hunter (D - South ] Bend) Issued a statement defending a pay increase. He said “the 1 press” had 1 been fighting legisla- . tive pay hikes since 1941. He said legislators have a big fesponsibil- I ity and they deserve adequate pay i for their work. 1

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— ■ '■■■■■■ Key Democrats Drafting New Farm Program Drafting Plan As Answer To Demand From Eisenhower WASHINGTON (UPI) — Key Democrats today were drafting a new farm plan which President Eisenhower has promised to oppose. The Democratic plan would enable the government to stop propping market prices for basic crops and would, instead, tap the Treasury for direct payments to growers. Some version of the new plan seemed likely to emerge as the Democratic Congress’ answer to President Eisenhower’s demand that it curtail the “excessively expensive” cost of farm price supports. Democratic farm leaders and some farm belt Republicans rejected the solution proposed Thursday by the President. Eisenhower in a special farm message asked for authority to lower supports on a dozen crops for which the law now provides mandatory price floors. . In apparent anticipation of the Democratic move, the President made it clear that he would oppose any direct-payment plan. Fear Bankruptcy Republican leaders insisted that the President's program was a “sound”' solution to the problem of farm surpluses. But Democratic farm leaders said it would bankrupt the farmers. Some Midwest Republicans agreed. Sen. Milton R. Young (R-N.D.) said he was “disgusted” with the President’s farm message. The new pldn on which influential Democratic senators are working is a sharply-revised version of the so-called “Brannan plan”' which was advanced by the Truman administration 10 years ago and rejected by a Democratic (Continued on page eight) Mrs. Elmer Becker Is Rotary Speaker Rotarians Hear Os Exchange Program Mrs. Elmer Becker, of Woodburn. told of her experiences on an around-the-world tour at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Mr. and Mrs. Becker, on their ; tour of more than three months, visited the boys and girls who had visited -in their home under .the international farm youth exchange 1 program in recent years. Mrs. Becker, who used Slides to j illustrate her talk, dwelt mostly on . India, where they spent more than i a month, living in the Delhi home of an IFYE student who had spent several months at the Becker , home in Woodburn. The IFYE program, Mrs. Beck- ( er explained, was started in 1948, i with youths of foreign countries visiting the United States. In 1949, American boys were sent abroad in the exchange program, and the ' following year, girls were includ- ‘ ed in the project. This program. ‘ the speaker explained, is not strictly educational, but primarily a form program. She elaborated on , the fact that the greatest a’dvan- i tage of the program is the greater understanding obtained through ( personal contacts. I The average length of stay for j these exchange students is from April to December? Ivan Stucky was chairman of 1 the program, and had as his ’ guests his wife and the speaker's husband.

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Slopgap Segregation Plans For Virginia Almond's Proposal Up To Legislature RICHMOND, Va. (UPI) -Gov. J. Lindsay Almond's stopgap segregation proposals come up for expected easy passage today in the General Assembly despite a diehard bid uy some members to block the token school integration scheduled Mbnday. Almond's basic proposal of a system of state tuition grants for students who choose private schools over integrated classes would still permit some race mixing. A bloc of staunch segregationist members was rebuffed Thursday by Almond when they appealed to him to consider some “last resort” method to head off the scheduled integration in just three days in Norfolk and Arlington. Charlottesville won a last minute stay of integration Thursday, relieving some of the pressure on the lawmakers. Federal Appeals Judge Simon Sobeloff gave the city until September to work out a new integration plan. Another city under integration orders, Front Royal, waited to see whether Almond’s program of $250 annual tuition grants for students to attend private schools -would relieve the necessity to re--open Warren County high school. Almond last fall closed schools ih Norfolk, Charlottesville and Front Royal to prevent integration under the “massive resistance” program killed last week in the courts. [ ' . Cuban Rebels Speed Up Crime Trials War Criminal 3 Before Tribunal HAVANA (UPI)—Lt. Col. Ricardo L. Grao, Cuba’s “war criminal _N®. lutibnary tribunal today—the first day of a scheduled speedup in “war crimes” trials here. While there was no immediate indication how long Grao’s trial will take, tribunals sitting simultaneously at Camp Columbia and Cabana Prison are expected to deal wjth lesser offenders at a rate of'seven a day. The trials of Majs. Jesus Sosa Blanco and Pedro Morejon Valdes, the only other war criminals tried in Havana so far, lasted for upwards of 10 hours while witnesses by the dozen came forward to testify against the defendants. Farmhands Return Home In all, 33 persons took the stand against Sosd and 55 against Morejon. It is not certain what witnesses will be called against Grao, .The 600-odd farmhands who swarmed in from Oriente Province to tell their stories at the earlier trails have almost all returned home, leaving no more than a score of their number in Havana. The supreme military tribunal meets tonight to hear the appeals' of Sosa and Morejon. Informed sources expect that both appeals of Sosa and Morejon. Informed sources expect that both appeals will be rejected and that the two men will be shot at dawn. These sources discounted rumors that Sosa might be granted a new trial, even though attorneys on both sides of his case have submitted new evidence. To Launch Land Reform They said a new trial would amount to an admission that the earlier proceedings, in what the prisoner described as Colosseum” atmosphere of the Sports Palace Stadium, had been mishandled. * “ Meanwhile, Fidel Castro was preparing to return to his stronghold in the mountains of Oriente, where he will launch his promised land reform program Monday by parcelling out farms to landless hill dwellers. •• - - ," ’

Second Public Hearing Held On Work Bill Democrat Senator Threatens To Blast Measure Onto Floor INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A Democratic senator said today he will | try to blast the “right to work” ■repeal bill out of committee Monday unless the committee takes the bill to the floor of the Indiana Senate of its own accord. Sen. William Christy of Hammond made that statement as the second public bearing on the measure ended 10 minutes after midnight, with majority Republicans apparently having no further legitimate excuse for delaying a showdown c.l the bill. Sen. Nelson Grills (D-Indianapo-lis> predicted that the committee will make, its long-delayed report in favor of killing the repealer, probably with a minority report to keep it alive. Curiously, Sen. Roy Conrad (RMonticello), one of the few GOP rebeP members of the anti-repeal stacked committee, presided at the hearing at which most witnesses droned forth on repetitious testimony on both sides of the issue. McDermott Is 111 Sen. George W. McDermott (RAlexandria), committee chairman, pleaded illness and did not appear at the hearing. Rebel Senate Republicans to date have refused to help the Democrats force the measure out of committee. But the anti-repealers now have lost most of their excuses for bottling up the controx'ersial measure in the labor committee, and there are indications that the maverick Republicans in the Senate, a hard core of six or seven, will no longer stay hitched and wiU vote for the repealer Raines, favorin “right to work”, and Dallas Sells, president of the Indiana AFL-CIO, who wants repeal. were the chief witnesses at the public hearing. “Voluntary union membership is better for the labor union movement than coerced membership,” Bishop Raines said. “Leadership in any organization needs to have the check of being subject to winning and keeping- the approval of the person or persons who pay the bill. “The American Way “Voluntary rather than coerced membership gives the individual an effective way to express his approval or disapproval of union (Contlbufec on page eight) Local Man's Mother Is Taken By Death Mrs. Eva Fravel Dies At Geneva Mrs. Eva Alice Fravel, 80, died about 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon at her home in Geneva following an extended illness. Surviving are five daughters, Miss Katherine Fravel, at home, Mrs. Mary Blowers of Denham Springs, La., Mrs. Erma Brunner of Montore, Mich., Mrs. Virena Blum of Flint, Mich., and Mrs. Jean Reid of Lapeer, Mich.; four sons, Herbert Fravel of Decatur, Willaim Fravel of Geneva, Robert Fravel of Indianapolis, and James Jj'ravel of Fenton, Mich., and a sister. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva, the Rev. Paul Temple officiating, assisted by the Rev. Robert Bickel. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery near Geneva. Friends may call at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home until time of the services. —■ r*""' ' """" ' '■

Indiana Tax Reform Program Proposed Would Repeal State Gross Income Tax INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — State Sen. Marshall F. Kizer of Plymouth, a Democratic candidate for governor in 1956, today proposed a broad Indiana tax reform porgram which included repeal of the gross income tax law and substitution of personal and corporate net inome taxes. Kizer, rising to a point of personal privilege in the Senate, told his colleagues that legislation carrying out his eight-point program had been introdued or would be introdued this session. “The only ingredient necessary for us to begin this tax reform is the political courage to do what must be done,” Kizer said. He said that “apparently both political parties have decided that the much - needed overhaul of our patched - up, makeshift system should not be attempted, at least not this session.” Kizer proposed a state personal net income tax rate varying from 1 to 6 per cent and a corporate tax of 6 per cent including all corporations, not just those selling goods in Indiana. He said a conservative estimate was that the net income taxes would raise 75 million dollars a year more than gross income taxes, and the state would have enough revenue to return to local communities large enough sums to reduce the local property tax rates. Kizer also proposed a $2,000 tax exemption on household goods, a SI,OOO exemption for every homeowner, repeal of the “antiquated abused and useless” poll tax, reassessment of all real estate at at least 50 per cent of fair market value, and payment of property taxes on motor vehicles at the time license plates are issued. Kizer said gross income was an “emergency imposed at the depths of the depression.” He said “a large segment of our economy Continued on page five Elks Cancer Party Saturday, Feb. 7 Free Dance Closing Feature Os Party Plans are progressing rapidly for the annual Elks cancer party, according to an announcement today by Frank Lybarger and Lyle Mallonee', co-chairmen for the Elks charity party. The annual party will be held Saturday evening, Feb. 7, at the Knights of Columbus, hall, where last year’s highly successful event was also held. The Keynotes have been engaged to play for the free dance, starting at 10 o'clock, the closing feature of the party. Several of the Elks members are working in pairs to contact merchants for donations of articles to be given away at the party, one of the annual features. Decatur merchants have cooperated wholeheartedly in past years to make the cancer party one of the outstanding entertainments of each year. All proceeds from the event go to the Indiana Elks cancer fund, which is used for research in the continuing fight against the disease. Open house will be observed at the K. of C. hall the night of the party, 'to which the public is invited. Tickets may be purchased from Elks members and may also be obtained at the Elks club and the K. of C. hall. Many valuable prizes will be given away during the evening. Members of the Keynoters, who will furnish music, for the dance, are: James Webb, trumpet: Gene Chronister, drums; Chet Longenberger, piano: Don Overmeyer, tenor sax, and Clint Reed, bass. — • .T-*

Space Agency Director Says Plans Speeded Senate Committee Seeks Information On U.S. Standing WASHINGTON (UPD— Dr. T. Keith Glennan assured a Senate ■ space inquiry today that the U.S. I will try “with the same sense of ■ urgency we had during 7 the war” i to place a man in orbit “within > the next couple of years.” The director of the National ’ Aeronautics and Space Adminis- ; tration made the pledge in a t statement to the Senate group s headed by Majority Leader Lyn- - don B. Johnson (D-Tex.) which is • .investigating U.S. progress in r space exploration. i “This committee wants to know , t where we now stand,” Johnson said. “When can the American 1 people expect to catch up with i the Russians?” Glennan’s statement did not an--1 swer the question directly, but ; said the effect of Russian space ’ achievements has been “enor- . mous,” and “our space mission is i so vital we must carry it forward i with the same sense of urgencj we had during the war." Fly X-li. tan Year ./ Glennan reported that the Me. Donnell Aircraft Corp, of St. Louis will build “capsules we hope to use to send a man into orbital flight within the next couple of years.” “We are calling upon every scientific and technological capability of the nation that can contribute to this program,” he shid. The NASA chief also: —Said that before the end of the year a flight of the Air Force i X-15 rocket plane to an altitude ■ of 100 miles should “stretch our big toe into the edges of space.” The plane will go almost high enough to achieve an orbit, but lack of speed would prevent this. —Predicted that the “cluster” of Jupiter rockets being put together by the Army will make it possible in 1962 “to..put 10 tons of payload into orbit and to send two tons of payload into deep space, far beyond the moon.” The 10 rocket cluster is expected to have a total thrust of 1,500,000 pounds. Johnson commented that Rush r sian space successes “indicate boosters of greater power than we ’ possess and give evidence of their technical achievements." i Symington Attacks Estimates ! Before Glennan testified, Johqj son announced he would ask the I Central Intelligence Agency to s clear up conflicting reports on > Soviet missile strength. He said t officials of the super-secret agency would be questioned later in a . closed-door session. Defense Department space pro--1 grams were listed for an after* ’ noon- airing. Dr. .Herbert .York,. ~dfei„_ rector of defense research and ’ engineering, headed a witness list which Included Roy Johnson, di- ’ rector of the Advanced Research • Projects Agency: William M. Hol- ' aday, director of guided missiles I and Dr. Wernher von Braun, Ger- > man-bom Army missile expert. ‘ At Thursday’s session, Sen. Stuf art Symington (D-Mo.l, longtime critic of administration defense > policies, sharply attacked inteUigence estimates of Soviet missile J capabilities. ’ Symington claimed the estimates had been “drasticaly” t downgraded from previous apprai- • sals of Russian intercontinental missile strength, which he said j were too low. . (Continued on page alx) > BULLETIN ' INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—The Indiana House passed. 74-21, > and sent to the Senate today a "ripper” bill to shift patronage ? control to the Indiana State - Department of Revenue from Republican to Democratic hands. - r 1 "'d

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